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by **NYNighthawk** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:02 pm

Cesar got his in the end and Ganci died from lung cancer. Hard to believe looking at him he had a goomad, I guess shewas attracted to his heroin money!

by B. » Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:21 pm

Bonventre lived and had his social club down in that part of Brooklyn. Might have been Bensonhurst not Gravesend but it was in those same neighborhoods.

by **newera_212** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:47 pm

PolackTony wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:35 am Hadn’t realized also that Baldo lived in Gravesend. I guess I had just assumed that he stayed up by Middle Village.

Same here - that's pretty crazy. Figured he was up in glendale, MV, etc. or even Bushwick. I wonder how plugged into MV, Ridgewood, etc. and involved he really was.... besides having business interests and old country friends around there. Things in the past made it sound like he was in "charge" of the Giannini crew but it looks things weren't as streamlined and formal with all of those kids as previously speculated. Just a loose interchanging group of kids not under one specific crime family/person with immigrant or 1st generation parents.

Where did Cesare live at?

by **PolackTony** » Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:35 am

Hadn’t realized also that Baldo lived in Gravesend. I guess I had just assumed that he stayed up by Middle Village.

by **PolackTony** » Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:32 am

Shellackhead wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 3:52 am
axx wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:35 am Well amato is 5'11

Thats average height.

For a Sicilian, he’s a giant. So everyone was right

by **Shellackhead** » Sun Dec 04, 2022 3:52 am

axx wrote: ↑Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:35 am Well amato is 5'11

Thats average height.

by **axx** » Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:35 am

Well amato is 5'11

by **PolackTony** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:36 pm

axx wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:22 pm
PolackTony wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:29 am
Shellackhead wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:48 am
JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:38 am Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato
Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short
Offhand I don’t recall their heights. It may be less that Baldo (and Cesare) were particularly tall but rather that Catalano and Ganci were short.
Frank Fiordolino mentioned in one of those MBA q&a-s that Amato is very tall.

Anyone know for sure how tall Catalano is?

by **Browniety86** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:48 pm

Adam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:28 am
Browniety86 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:30 pm
Adam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:40 am I find Last Days of the Sicilians to be the best read on the Pizza Connection and Sal Catalano, Baldo, Bonventre and the rest. The actual book The Pizza Connection is good but is very legalistic. When I read one I normally have the other next to it for reference.
I tried to get into that book once and just couldnt...
Last Days of the Sicilians, or Pizza Connection? I thought Last Days was fine, not great but good, but Pizza Connection is hard to get through. I work at a university and before I owned it I had checked it out from our university library a couple times but it's kept at the Law School library.

Last Days of The Sicilians...I made it about 100 pages in...but I loved "Gangland: How The FBI Broke The Mob", which alot of people thought was boring...so to each his own I guess...

by **axx** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:22 pm

PolackTony wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:29 am
Shellackhead wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:48 am
JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:38 am Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato
Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short
Offhand I don’t recall their heights. It may be less that Baldo (and Cesare) were particularly tall but rather that Catalano and Ganci were short.

Frank Fiordolino mentioned in one of those MBA q&a-s that Amato is very tall.

by **baldo** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:37 am

Bonventre was always rumored to be 6-7 but that was most likely an urban myth. Believe I saw a mugshot where he is listed as 5-9 or so. Those other guys in the pic were definitely very short.

by **Adam** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:28 am

Browniety86 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:30 pm
Adam wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:40 am I find Last Days of the Sicilians to be the best read on the Pizza Connection and Sal Catalano, Baldo, Bonventre and the rest. The actual book The Pizza Connection is good but is very legalistic. When I read one I normally have the other next to it for reference.
I tried to get into that book once and just couldnt...

Last Days of the Sicilians, or Pizza Connection? I thought Last Days was fine, not great but good, but Pizza Connection is hard to get through. I work at a university and before I owned it I had checked it out from our university library a couple times but it's kept at the Law School library.

by **PolackTony** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:29 am

Shellackhead wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:48 am
JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:38 am Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato
Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short

Offhand I don’t recall their heights. It may be less that Baldo (and Cesare) were particularly tall but rather that Catalano and Ganci were short.

by **Shellackhead** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:48 am

JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:38 am Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato

Great pic. amato is very tall wow. I thought he was short

by **motorfab** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:47 am

Browniety86 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:44 am
JoeNGallo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:38 am Photo of Catalano & Amato together

L-R: Cesare Bonventre, Giuseppe Ganci, Frank Polizzi, Salvatore Catalano & Baldo Amato
Is that Frank Polizzi the DeCav capo?

Yes

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